CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Oct. 23, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP will bolster a number of existing initiatives in the coming months aimed at preventing the import of products made with forced labor, said Katie Woodson, assistant director within the operations and forced labor divisions of CBP's Office of Trade, during a panel on forced labor at last week's Western Cargo Conference.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 23 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on wood mouldings and millwork products from China (A-570-117) to correct a ministerial error in its calculation for the AD rate for entries of subject merchandise from one of the mandatory respondents in the review, Jinquan/Baiyuan -- consisting of Fujian Jinquan Trade Co., Ltd. and Baiyuan Wood Machining Co., Ltd. -- during the period Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping duty investigations on hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from China, Germany, India and Saudi Arabia, as well as countervailing duty investigations on the same product from China and India, it said in a fact sheet Oct. 22. The underlying petition was filed in September (see 2410010045). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by Nov. 14. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of disposable aluminum containers, pans, trays, and lids from China, it said in a fact sheet issued Oct. 22. Commerce set CVD rates ranging from 78.12% to 312.91% for Chinese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
A domestic producer coalition filed petitions last week with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping duties on paper file folders from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, as well as countervailing duties on paper file folders from Cambodia. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers.
On Oct. 16-22, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., sent U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai a letter less than two weeks ahead of election day, asking her to quickly initiate a Section 301 investigation on Chinese support for fentanyl trafficking. Families of those who died from overdoses filed a petition last week (see 2410180039).